<p>So in the past couple of weeks I have been trying to absorb a lot information on business majors and undergraduate degree. And what I have observed is that a UG degree in Business is less worthwhile in comparison to other degrees. But I don't comprehend one thing. If I don't get a degree in business then my scope of opportunities of getting work experience right out of college will be less compared to someone who has a business degree. Won't companies who recruit students out of their undergraduate prefer to have them have some knowledge in business and hence give them the upper hand.
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<p>The first mistake you are making is grouping all business majors together. Separate Accounting from the rest of them. Accounting is the only business major that employers, in general, prefer to hire over non-business majors (at least for Accounting and Finance positions). Lots of other factors come into play, but that is the general rule.</p>
<p>The second mistake you are making is grouping all non-business majors together. Separate Engineering, Computer Science, and strictly vocational degrees (like Nursing) from the rest. Employers prefer those majors, but not other non-business majors, over non-Accounting business majors. Once again, lots of factors come into play, with those factors varying major by major. But that is the general rule.</p>
<p>And with the exception of Accounting for Accounting/Finance positions (and only to a certain extent), employers consider anything you learn in business school to be irrelevant to the real-world, so they prefer to play the odds by going with majors that, in general, require more intelligence and intensive work (though there are plenty of exceptions where business majors are more intelligent/hard-working than engineering, etc… majors), in order to increase the likelihood that the candidate will master the real-world knowledge/skills.</p>